Young Adult movies are intense but hey so is being a young adult – well as much as I can remember of it anyway – so that all makes sense. But it can be equally as intense watching a YA film as an adult – OK it’s patently not Continue Reading
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Funny animals: Zootopia posters parody 2015’s biggest films
My my my but the makers of Zootopia, a film about a world in which animals are the civilised ones and live in a unique city dividd by climate zone rather than races, are having some fun, OK a whole lotta fun, marketing their film. Granted they’ve used many Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Therefore I Am
SNAPSHOT “A mysterious encounter between a man who claims to be from the future and the man that he claims is his former self. A surreal psychological thriller about loss and regret. All set within the framework of a time travel story that loosely operates in accordance to the Continue Reading
Comic to TV then back again: One fan’s brilliant The Walking Dead art
I love our postmodern age where one creative moment begets another begs another until they all merge into one satisfying complimentary whole. It’s often a case of art imitating art imitating art – forget about life itself: who wants that? – to glorious, pop culture-glorifying effect. The latest person Continue Reading
How To Be Single ponders why love doesn’t come with a guide
SNAPSHOT There’s a right way to be single, a wrong way to be single, and then…there’s Alice. And Robin. Lucy. Meg. Tom. David. New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, be it a love connection, a hook-up, or something in the middle. And somewhere Continue Reading
Future Zeitgeist: 3 pop culture resolutions for 2016
Another new year! Thousands of new movies to watch. Hundreds of TV shows to watch. Billions of books to read (wait, is that only me?). And an insane amount of music waiting to be downloaded and listened to over the next 366 days. So what to prioritise? What to Continue Reading
Movie review: The Good Dinosaur
Being the curious creatures that we are, humanity has always loved a good “What if?” scenario. It has fuelled the ragingly successful genre of alternate history, one that Pixar has now joined with gusto and its trademark insight into the “human” condition and emotional nuance. Far from being the Continue Reading
Re-stacking the shelves: The 10 books I loved most in 2015
One of the great drawbacks of being a pop culture consuming omnivore is that I don’t have nearly enough time to read as I would like to. Movies happen at set times at the cinema and so I must be there or miss out, music can be listened to Continue Reading
A Monster Calls: If no one sees you, are you really there at all?
SNAPSHOT A Monster Calls is the story of Conor, a boy who faces the challenge of a very ill mother, school bullies and the isolation, or “Invisibility” the situation creates. In the vein of Where The Wild Things Are, Conor escapes into the world of fantasy and imagination, conjuring Continue Reading
Re-watching the big glowing box: The 10 TV shows I loved most in 2015
I am a man caught between two screens – a big cinematic one and a much smaller but ever-increasingly influential and powerful one. The tug of war is intense but I find myself drawn again and again to the powerful, funny, clever, engaging stories television tells, especially in what Continue Reading